Ethiopia Tour – North

A travel writer, Martin Roberts, shares his exciting and informative trip review to Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is not an African destination that most British travellers consider, us included. However our daughter persuaded us to meet up with her to tour the Northern Highlands for 2 weeks and we enjoyed our trip tremendously.

On Thursday September 04, 2008 the ancient axumite obelisk which was taken by the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, was returned to the original place from where Mussolini took it.

The world has its seven wonders naming the rest ‘the eighth.’ However, I would put the churches at Lalibela in Northern Ethiopia in the first row of the Eighth Wonders of the World. A perspective by Dr. Hanna Rubinkowska, Warsaw University.

Part II of an exciting trip to North Ethiopia in which we trek across the Simien Mountains to Geech and Chenek and get the opportunity to see plants and wildlife only to be found in Ethiopia.

My personal experiences of an exciting trip to the north of Ethiopia around Gonder and the Simien Mountains national park.

A personal view of exploring northern Ethiopia by Hanna Rubinkowska, taking in some of the more of the beaten track destinations not so frequented by tourists.

On the first part of my trip we discovered the wonders of Bahirdar, the Blue Nile falls, Lake Tana and the Island Monasteries. In this 2nd part we continue our journey north to Axum, Lalibela and Harar.

A personal diary of my 16 day Ethiopia tour of the northern histoical sites and landscape, visiting the spectacular Blue Nile Falls and crossing the Simien Mountains.